Progress of Population in the intervals of the periodic Censuses between the Years 1841-1891.

		1841.	1847.	1851.	1857.	1861.	1870.	1881.	1891.	1841 to 1891.
POPULATION—
Population (Numerical)—
Persons	No.	50,216	70,164	70,130	81,492	89,977	99,328	115,705	146,667
Males	No.	34,504	47,828	43,127	45,916	49,593	52,853	61,162	77,560
Females	No.	15,712	22,336	25,482	34,886	40,384	46,475	54,543	69,107
Population (Centesimal)—
Persons	per cent.	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Males	per cent.	68.70	68.17	61.50	56.35	55.12	53.21	52.86	52.88
Females	per cent.	31.30	31.83	38.50	43.65	44.88	46.79	47.14	47.12
Females to 100 Males		45.54	46.70	59.06	75.98	81.43	84.73	89.18	89.12
Persons to the square mile	No.	1.92	2.68	2.68	3.11	3.43	3.79	4.39	5.60
Persons to the inhabited dwelling	No.	7.32	7.37	6.25	5.71	5.12	5.50	5.26	5.23
Percentage Increase or Decrease since last Census—*
Decennial Rate			63.46	-0.15	26.64	25.91	11.76	14.78	26.76
Annual Rate			5.45	-0.00	2.50	2.44	1.13	1.38	2.40	2.19
Births since previous Census	No.		8,790	5,780	15,390	12,927	26,531	36,126	45,209	150,753
Deaths since previous Census	No.		5,011	3,034	9,696	6,182	12,276	18,781	20,208	75,188
Excess of births over deaths, since previous Census	No.		3,779	2,746	5,694	6,745	14,255	17,345	25,001	75,565
Balance of migration, since previous Census*	No.		16,169	-2,780	5,668	1,740	- 4904	- 968	5,961	20,886
Net increase of population since previous Census			19,948	- 34	11,362	8,485	9,351	16,377	30,962	96,451
Percentage increase or decrease since previous Census, due per year—
Due to natural increase	per cent.		1.17	1.23	1.29	2.00	1.68	1.45	1.97	1.87
Due to migration	per cent.		4.56	- 1.30	1.29	0.53	- 0.64	- 0.09	0.48	0.70
Net increase	per cent.		5.45	0.00	2.50	2.44	1.13	1.38	2.40	2.19